Car-replacer



(No Model.) P- W HYNESV.

OAR RBPLAUBR. No. 409,103; Patented Aug. 13, 1889.

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PATRICK'VV. IIYNES, OF CEDAR RAPIDS, IOVA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 409,103, dated August 1MB, 1889.

Application filed September 20, 1888. Serial No. 285,888. (No model.)

Toall whom t may concern.:

Be it known that I, PATRICK IV. IIYNES, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Cedar Rapids, in the county of Linn and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Replacers; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being' had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of this invention and is a cross-section of the replacer. Fig. 2 is a top view. Fig. 3 is a side view. Fig. 4- is a top view. Figs. aand G show bottom and side views of the pyramidal studs.

This invention has relation to devices for replacing the wheels of a derailed car upon the track; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple and effective device to be used chieiiy in connection with the ordinary car-frog in replacing a car upon the track.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A designates the car-replacer, which is of oblong form. Its base is rectangular and its side walls parallel. Its ends B B are on equal angles from the baseslevel and terminate at the laterally-inclined top of the car-replacer. (Indicated at'C.) The ends B B are inclined from the inclined top C downward, as also laterally and reversely to the top incline or in a direction away fromthe rail, as indicated in dotted lines at A A. This top or upper surface has its longitudinal elements parallel to the base; but it is inclined from side to side, its lower side being lower than the height of a rail. In constructing this replacer I prefer to make its body E of hard woodsuch as solid oak-and to secure thereto the plates F, of iron or steel, covering the base, top, and ends. The plates and body should be bound together by means of strong rivets having countersunk heads.

In the base of the car-replacer, near its ends, are secured the small spikes or pyramidal studs g g, which are designed to provide a purchase for the replacer when necessary. In the winter some thin soft pieces of wood are laid upon the surface when leveled, and upon these pieces the replacer is seated.

In operation the replacer is placed between the track for the inner wheels, while the ordinary car-frog is used to run the outer wheels over the rail. The car is Ithen drawn so that the wheels are run on the replacer and frog. As the car progresses, the iiange of the outer wheel passes over the rail, while the inner wheel, being raised on the replacer, is guided by its slanting top to position on its rail without interfering with the operating of the frog on the outside in such a manner as to break or overturn it-an accident which frequently happens when the ordinary camel back or wedge is used for the inner wheels. therefore saved, and in winter, if a little care and judgment are used, it performs its work generally on the first trial. The slantof the top of the replacer also enables the user to make the proper adjustment closer or far ther from the rail, to secure the proper rise for the wheel.

. By using two of these car-replacers, the turning or slewing of a car-truck is facilitated. The replacers are arranged under a pair of wheels, so that theminclined top will face in the direction toward which it is desired to turn the truck. Then, the car being moved, the wheels rolling on the incline of the replacer will slip off on the lower side, turning the truck as desired.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

The car-replacer having an inwardly-sloping upper surface and reversely or laterally andoutward sloping ends, said ends also sloping downward, and which car-replacer has its upper inward sloping and base portions provided with plates, the lower one of which is armed with points or spikes, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

PATRICK W. HYNES. Titnessesz N. A. FEH, P. SUNDE.

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